Isaiah Taylor

And when SpaceX set out to create what they've created now, they started much smaller, right?

They created the Falcon 1.

Falcon 1 was a tiny rocket.

It was really too small to make any sense or be economical, but it taught them how to build rockets from scratch, right?

And it gave them a test platform to test their construction methods and their engineering and their motors and these sorts of things.

And then they got into the Falcon 9 and now they're building Starship.

I think that we're going to follow a very similar track here where over time, I believe our reactors will slowly get larger.

But the first thing to do is you have to make sort of a minimum viable thing that your team can build and can build quickly and learn lessons.

It's all about learning.

We really are having to reinvent nuclear.

We can't just take the designs that we had in the 1960s.

Those designs don't work anymore for a few reasons.

It's not that they technologically don't work.

It's that they economically don't work.

We don't have the tool chains and the labor to do massive engineering projects and massive construction projects anymore.

This is something we were really, really good at in the 50s and 60s.

As a country, as a civilization, we were great at building large civil infrastructure.

Over time, we got worse at that.

We can talk about why, but the fact is we got worse at that and we got better at manufacturing.

if you're going to bring nuclear back today i believe that the form factor of your reactor should be reflective of that change where you're going toward more smaller manufactured things rather than these like really big civil works projects so the short answer is like you start small and you move quickly and you learn fast with smart people and that's exactly what we're doing interesting yeah interesting one more thing everybody gets a gift